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- Career blog now View from the Cubicle
- Do clueless end-users and cutthroat co-workers make your work life a walking festival of hell? Or maybe you've acheived a Zen state and could help your fellow TechRepublic members with your advice. Either way, this is the place to be. The View from the Cubicle blog, formerly the Career blog,...
- Tags: toni bowers, Success, publishing gal, Communication, Career Development, Career
- Blog posts 2007-06-08
- Strategic alignment: Use it for your career too
- I think most people in IT have heard the term "strategic alignment" more times than they can count. Pundits are crawling out from under rocks everywhere to stress how important it is for IT to align itself with corporate business goals. Strategic alignment helps clarify and chart an organization's direction...
- Tags: toni bowers, Success, publishing gal, Personal Development, Career Development, Career
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- Essential career links for IT professionals
- Looking for a job is a job in itself. Its only the first step to develop the skills that you need in your line of work. Then you have to know where to look for a job and what to do to develop contacts that will help you get your...
- Tags: toni bowers, publishing gal, Personal Development, Interviews, Career Development, Career
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Is stress incurable for IT pros?
- I found this in an article on the PubMed web site: "In a study of the bodily, mental, and psychophysiological reactions of employees involved in the design of advanced telecommunications systems and of office employees using regular video display technology, several stress-related psychosomatic disorders have been identified." Those disorders include:Sleep...
- Tags: Workplace, toni bowers, publishing gal, Job Satisfaction, Company Culture, Career
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- The whys and hows of moonlighting
- According to the latest report form the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, In 2002, 5.3 percent of U.S. workers across the nation held more than one job. (The bureau defines multiple jobholders as "employed persons who had either two or more jobs as a wage and salary worker, were self-employed...
- Tags: Workplace Strategy, toni bowers, publishing gal, Job Satisfaction, Company Culture, Career
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- What causes employee negativity?
- In 2003, global professional services firm Towers Perrin conducted a survey of some U.S. and Canadian companies that identified five elements that largely generate most of the current negativity among their workers. The five elements are:An excessive workload Concerns about management’s ability to lead the company successfully Anxiety about the...
- Tags: Workplace, toni bowers, Teams, publishing gal, Morale, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- Corporate policies: The best and the worst
- Liz Ryan, in her column for BusinessWeek, keeps a list of the best and worst corporate policies that she has encountered while being a consultant. This month, she added referral bonus programs to her list of Best Corporate Policies and anti-moonlighting policies to her list of Worst Corporate Policies. Weve...
- Tags: toni bowers, publishing gal, General, Discipline, Company Perks, Company Culture
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Earworms, revisited
- In one of my previous blog posts, I opened a big ole can of worms, earworms that is. Earworms, as you probably know, are those songs that get caught in our heads (usually very insipid, annoying ones) that you cant seem to get rid of. TechRepublic members responded to that...
- Tags: toni bowers, publishing gal, Morale, Humor, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
- Job dissatisfaction and the Sunday night blues
- There were a few times in my life when Sunday nights brought that awful pit-in-the-stomach feeling of dread thinking about the approaching Monday morning. This occurred most frequently during my school years and for about four months when I worked for a health insurance giant that shall remain nameless because...
- Tags: toni bowers, publishing gal, Morale, Job Satisfaction, Career
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- "Subtle" sexism is still a problem
- I had a professor in college who was a militant feminist and a nun. I never could quite reconcile that in my mind, but anyway, this woman taught Womens Literature. Although I was grateful to her for introducing me to the works of female authors (sad to say, up until...
- Tags: Women In It, toni bowers, Sexual Harassment, publishing gal, Office Politics, Morale, Job Satisfaction, General, Co-workers, Career
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- Adventures of a coddled employee
- Most people would feel very lucky to work for an organization that is reluctant to fire anyone. And, admittedly, that attitude is better than an intolerant one in which employees arent nurtured to perform at their best. But there is a downside to keeping a person no matter what their...
- Tags: Workplace Strategies, toni bowers, Teams, publishing gal, Office Politics, Management, General, Firing, Career Development, Career
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
- All in favor of workday naps, say Aye!
- The Better Sleep Council, through a stress and sleep survey, found that 65% of Americans are losing sleep due to stress. And a recent poll by the National Sleep Foundation found that over 80% of American adults link inadequate sleep with impaired daytime performance. Thats a sobering, though not surprising,...
- Tags: Company Culture, Company Perks, General, Humor, Morale, Performance, publishing gal, toni bowers
- Blog posts 2007-03-20
- Getting around to procrastination
- Oh, weve probably all done it: Put off doing something that you dont want to do. Some people procrastinate on purpose because they work better under pressure. But unless youre a trauma surgeon or work for a daily newspaper, youre not doing anyone any favors, including yourself.Procrastinating consistently can hurt...
- Tags: Career, Career Development, Co-workers, General, publishing gal, toni bowers
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- Answering the strengths/weaknesses question in interviews
- How do you respond to the dreaded interview question: What are some of your strengths and weaknesses?First, its important to keep your answer fairly brief and within context of your work environment. Its best to list about two strengths. (As opposed to saying, "I thought you might ask that question....
- Tags: Career Development, Communication, Interviews, publishing gal, toni bowers
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- How to resign from your job
- I think most human beings who have become fed up with their job at some point in their lives have fantasized about just yelling "I quit!" and storming out of the office. Although that might feel good for about 5 minutes, youll soon find that such an action can do...
- Tags: Career, Exit Interivew, job, Job Satisfaction, publishing gal, toni bowers, Workplace Strategies
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- Do your career a favor: Stop the jargon!
- In his latest blog, Dont Be a Powerless Leader, leadership coach Don Blohowiak says "Any intentional attempt to lead comes across as a sales message and thus, especially among young people, triggers skepticism and defenses." Im telling you, that sentence so resonated with me, I almost swooned. Somebody has finally...
- Tags: Career, Career Development, Communication, Company Culture, Humor, jargon, Leadership, Management, publishing gal, toni bowers
- Blog posts 2007-02-23
- The worst things about managing people
- I once worked for a company that had no set job levels. This resulted in a flurry of people who aspired to management simply because it was the most visible career step. They saw management as power, not as a role that required a particular skill set. Heres what I...
- Tags: Be Prepared, Career, Career Development, Communication, Discipline, Firing, job, Job Satisfaction, Management, publishing gal, toni bowers
- Blog posts 2007-01-29
- Good communication isn't just about good grammar
- Good communication is not merely about keeping your participles from dangling or your infinitives from splitting. Its about taking the time to understand the way the person youre speaking to receives and interprets information. I learned a long time ago that if I want to talk to my husband about...
- Tags: Co-workers, Communication, Good communication, information technology, IT Pros, Job Satisfaction, publishing gal, toni bowers
- Blog posts 2007-01-23
- Firing of IT workers over security leak is upheld
- It seems the firings of two IT workers at Ohio University last August has been upheld. Tom Reid, former director of communication network services, and Todd Acheson, former UNIX systems manager, were fired after security breaches exposed 173,000 files containing Social Security numbers, names, medical records and home addresses.The two...
- Tags: Discipline, Firing, IT worker, Office Politics, publishing gal, security, Todd Acheson, toni bowers, Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2006-11-30
- Happy birthday, e-mail!
- Id like to take this opportunity to wish e-mail a happy 35th birthday. I dont know about you, but I dont know how I ever lived without it. Seriously. My mind is so used to communicating by e-mail that I want to use it in every facet of my life....
- Tags: e-mail
- Blog posts 2006-11-28
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